| Violence and terror |
After demonizing Jews and Israelis, including citing Islamic sources that depict Jews negatively, and culminating with ongoing lies and libels that portray Jews as an immediate threat to Palestinian life and existence, the Palestinian Authority foment violence against Jews and Israelis, presenting it as legitimate and even heroic self-defense.
PA terror promotion takes many forms. Nationalistically, the PA actively elevates violence as a valid and heroic means to achieve political goals, while religiously, fighting and killing Jews has been presented repeatedly by PA religious and academic leaders as Allah’s will. On the social level, Palestinian leaders and society honor even the most loathsome of murderers portraying them as heroes and role models: Dalal Mughrabi, who led a bus hijacking in which 37 were killed, has schools, summer camps, and many other events and places baring her name to immortalize and glorify her and her terror attack.
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 The success of the PA’s promotion of violence is readily evident: A majority of Palestinians support killing and suicide terror against civilian Jews and Israelis. A poll conducted after the murder of eight teenagers who were studying in a Jerusalem high school in 2008, found that 84% of Palestinians supported the murder [NY Times, March 19, 2008, citing the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research].
This violent image of a dagger being thrust into the Star of David has appeared hundreds of times in a video clip for children on PA TV, from 2001 – 2008.
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| Case study: Dalal Mughrabi, from terrorist to hero |
| Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi led the most deadly terror attack in Israel's history. 37 civilians, 12 of them children, were killed in her 1978 bus hijacking. The Palestinian Authority has turned this terrorist into a celebrated hero and role model, as schools, summer camps, and sports tournaments are all named after her. Her attack was celebrated by a Fatah spokesman as "the most glorified sacrifice action in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle." [Al-Ayyam, July 13, 2008] Palestinian newspapers also frequently glorify Mughrabi, as in the Al-Ayyam article which described Mughrabi as writing "the most glorious page of heroism in the history of the Palestinian struggle. [Aug. 2, 2009] The PA celebrated the 31st anniversary of the killings with an hour-long TV special, which opened with the narrator glorifying the attack. Advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Sabri Saidam said on the day of the naming of a square in her name: "Every one of us has tried in his own way to express his pride in this Martyr [Mughrabi]." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 14, 2011] |
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Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi was a "hero" and terrorist Abu Jihad was "the great and humble leader"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 16, 2013
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Op-ed by Khaled Mismar. The writer talks about the time he spent working as a radio announcer on the Sawt Al-Asifa (Voice of Al-Asifa) station in Lebanon:
Headline: “The first bullet and the first stone (i.e., reference to terrorist Abu Jihad) still remembered!”
“One evening, I was the temporary [radio] announcer in the southern station and the broadcast technician at the time was brother Abu Zuhair, Hisham Al-Sa’adi. We visited a few fighters that night, including a young Fedayeen (self-sacrificing fighter) woman, who wore an army uniform and wanted to see the announcer broadcasting live but the broadcast’s material was recorded. Abu Zuhair came up with a plan and asked me to go into the studio and turn on the microphone and speak so that only those in the control room would be able to hear me. This cheered up the young woman who heard the announcer broadcasting live. Afterwards I found out that she was the hero Martyr (Shahid) Dalal Mughrabi.
This is one example, among many others that there is no room to mention, of the life events of the great and humble leader, who made the occupying Zionists lose sleep on several brave operations…Oh Abu Jihad, you will remain in our memories and in future generations’ memories, until we achieve the exalted goal for which the [Palestinian] national liberation organization, Fatah, set out with its Al-Asifa forces (PLO unit). This is revolution until victory.”
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Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Khalil Al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and planned m |
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Fatah official: Terrorist Mughrabi is “proof” of the significance of the “Palestinian women’s struggle”
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Al-Ayyam, Mar. 27, 2013
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“The Fatah movement in the Tulkarem region honored the mothers of Martyrs (Shahids) and prisoners as part of the March 8, [International] Women’s and Mother’s Day activities during a ceremony organized yesterday (March 26, 2013) in the city’s Reem Al-Bawadi hall.
The ceremony was attended by Tulkarem District Governor, Jamal Sa’id, and Secretary-General of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, Amin Maqbul, together with Fatah’s secretary in Tulkarem, Muayyad Sha’aban, heads of the official and popular security institutions and representatives of the national action factions, association representatives and families of Martyrs and prisoners. … Maqbul spoke about the significant stages of the fighting Palestinian women’s struggle, and brought as proof Dalal Mughrabi, who has become the topic [lit. headline] of any kind of women’s meeting.”
Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Spokesman of PA Security Forces describes terror attack killing 37 as "honorable"
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PA TV Live, Mar. 25, 2013
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Spokesman of PA Security Forces, Adnan Al-Damiri:
"All the honorable [events] take place in March, starting with the Al-Karameh Day through Mother's Day, Dalal Mughrabi's day and ending with Abu Jihad Khalil Al-Wazir. All these, brave brothers in the Palestinian Security Forces, this is their day, which we celebrate today."
Sign at the event:
"Under the auspices of President Mahmoud Abbas:
The eternal anniversary of the Al-Karameh battle is commemorated by the Political and National Guidance Commission"
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Note: Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - Founder of Fatah and Deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and planned many deadly terror attacks, including the most lethal in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Al-Karameh - In 1968, Israeli army forces attacked the Al-Karameh village in Jordan, where groups of Fatah terrorists had embedded themselves. Arafat, who managed to escape, used the heavy losses sustained by the Israeli army for propaganda purposes and declared the battle a great victory which erased the disgrace of the 1967 Six Day War defeat. |
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Dalal Mughrabi honored at Fatah rally in honor of female prisoners
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 18, 2013
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PA TV News’ report on solidarity with the prisoners. The Fatah movement organized a rally in Gaza in honor of the female prisoners. A poster of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi was displayed at the rally.
PA TV reporter: “In the month of March, [International] Women’s Day and the day of Dalal Mughrabi’s Martyrdom death, Mother’s Day and [the battle of] Al-Karameh Day and here today is the day of love for the released female prisoners.”
Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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PA daily op-ed glorifies female terrorists and promises to continue on their path
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Al-Ayyam, Mar. 17, 2013
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Op-ed by Dr. Faiha Qassem Abd Al-Hadi
“We will fight, as [our] grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters fought before us. The women’s struggle has not been a pleasant pastime, for some of them were punished, some were arrested and tortured, and some died as Martyrs (Shahids) for freedom: Lebanese union fighter ‘Warda Butrus Ibrahim’ [died] in 1946 while fighting alongside Lebanese workers for her rights and theirs; fighter ‘Sana'a Mehaidli’[died] in 1985 while defending her freedom and her homeland’s freedom against the Israeli occupation’s army in South Lebanon; Algerian fighter and doctor ‘Malika Qaid’, in 1957, who planned and carried out military actions against the French occupier; Palestinian fighter ‘Shadia Abu Ghazaleh’ [died] in Nablus while preparing a military operation against the Israeli occupier in 1968; and fighter “Dalal Mughrabi” who declared the first free Republic of Palestine in 1978. We promise our Arab [female] Martyrs (Shahidas) that we will continue on this path: ‘We haven’t grown tired and we haven’t been destroyed, freedom isn’t for free’ and we promise the [female] prisoners that we will continue our struggle ‘around the world and throughout the whole year’ and that we will undress the jailers and press for their (the female prisoners’) release and for the release of all the prisoners of freedom.”
Note: Sana'a Mahaidli carried out a suicide attack killing Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon.
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh participated in attacks against Israeli military facilities before she died while preparing a bomb in 1968.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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PA Deputy Interior Minister glorifies terrorist Dalal Mughrabi on International Women’s Day
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 14, 2013
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“[PA] Ministry of Interior celebrates [International] Women’s Day attended by Deputy Interior Minister, Hassan Alawi… Alawi blessed the Palestinian mother and woman. He said that words cannot do the Palestinian woman justice for she is the fighter, prisoner and Martyr (Shahida) who has given [so] much. He added: ’Today we remember the women’s struggles in different stages of the national struggle, and foremost among them Dalal Mughrabi who sacrificed her life for Palestine.’”
Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Student exhibit expressing “solidarity with the prisoners” features Dalal Mughrabi and other terrorists
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 13, 2013
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“The Martyr (Shahid) Abu Ali Mustafa student group, which belongs to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at the Palestine Technological University, Kadoorie, opened the Dawn of Freedom exhibition yesterday in solidarity with the prisoners incarcerated in the occupation’s prisons. The exhibition included photos of several hunger-striking prisoners, female prisoners and caricatures reflecting the prisoners’ situation, as well as photos of Martyr (Shahid) Abu Ali Mustafa, Popular Front’s (PFLP’s) Martyrs, Martyr Dalal Mughrabi, and late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez.”
Note: Abu Ali Mustafa - the General Secretary of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP). The PFLP, which rejected the Oslo Accords (1993), planned and carried out numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians since its founding in 1967 and throughout the Palestinian terror campaign between 2000- 2005 (the Intifada).
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Poem on Fatah's Facebook page glorifies terrorist Mughrabi "above all the women of the world"
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Fatah's Facebook page, Mar. 13, 2013
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 Fatah’s official Facebook page glorified terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and the anniversary of the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history. 37 Israeli civilians were killed when Dalal Mughrabi and a group of terrorists hijacked a bus on March 11, 1978.
“Taller than the moon,
More encompassing than the sun,
The seven heavens encompass her
The angels escort her until the day all the people will come back to life,
Bride of heaven,
Who established the Republic of Palestine,
Excelled, above all the women of the world, at carrying out the act of distinguished men,
She emerged from the month of March and was written into the annals of the eternal ones,
Here is Palestine,
Dalal Mughrabi passed through here”
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Fatah’s Facebook page glorifies terrorist Mughrabi’s deadly attack
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Fatah's Facebook page, Mar. 11, 2013
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 Fatah’s official Facebook page glorified terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and the anniversary of the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history. 37 Israeli civilians were killed when Dalal Mughrabi and a group of terrorists hijacked a bus on March 11, 1978.
“Every year on March 11: This date reminds the children of Zion that they are not safe in this land, because this is the land of the prophets and messengers, and male revolutionaries and female revolutionaries.”
Text on picture: “Dalal Mughrabi, an unforgettable date: March 11, 1978”
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PA TV: Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is "a Palestinian and Arab symbol"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Mar. 11, 2013
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PA TV program On this Day:
“On this day (today) in 1978, in one of the most courageous acts of self-sacrifice, a group (i.e., terrorists) infiltrated the coast between the [Israeli] cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa and took control of an Israeli bus, forcing it to turn towards Tel Aviv. The goal of the operation (i.e., terror attack), led by Palestinian fighter Dalal Mughrabi alongside ten fighters belonging to the Fatah movement, was to [enforce] negotiations with the occupation to free Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli army attacked the bus and a struggle ensued for hours resulting in the death of 37 Israelis and wounding 82 others and with the Martyrdom death of 9 fighters (i.e., terrorists) and the arrest of the tenth fighter. The name of the operation, commanded by Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad, was: the Deir Yassin operation. As a result of [the operation] Dalal Mughrabi became both a Palestinian and Arab symbol and the Palestinian writers gave her the nickname ‘President of the Palestinian Republic."
Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Fatah Facebook page marks anniversary of Dalal Mughrabi’s terror attack
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Fatah's Facebook page, Mar. 10, 2013
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 Fatah’s official Facebook page glorified terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and the anniversary of the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history. 37 Israeli civilians were killed when Dalal Mughrabi and a group of terrorists hijacked a bus on March 11, 1978.
“March 11, 1978, Palestinian Fatah day that shook the world!”
Text on brown background: “Safed, Haifa, Nazareth, Acre, Beit Shean, Beer Sheva” (i.e., all Israeli cities)
Text in red: “Those who carried out the Martyr Kamal Adwan Operation (i.e., the Coastal Road terrorist attack led by Dalal Mughrabi)”
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Fatah Facebook page glorifies terrorists who killed 37 civilians in honor of the anniversary of their attack
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Fatah's Facebook page, Mar. 10, 2013
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 Fatah’s official Facebook page glorified terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and the anniversary of Israel's most lethal terror attack. 37 Israeli civilians were killed when Dalal Mughrabi and a group of terrorists hijacked a bus in 1978.
“Twelve men led by a woman named Dalal Mughrabi succeeded in establishing Palestine, after the world refused to recognize their right to establish it.
They got on a bus on its way from [the Israeli city of] Haifa to Tel Aviv, and turned it into the temporary capital of the State of Palestine. They raised the white-green-red-black flag on the front of the bus, sang, chanted and danced, like children on a school trip.
When the Zionist forces surrounded them and helicopters pursued them intent on forcefully [lit. with the power of the weapon] taking over the bus, they blew it up, and blew themselves up with it. For the first time in the history of revolutions, a public bus became an independent republic with full sovereignty, for four hours. [It doesn’t matter] at all how long this republic lasted. What is important is that it was established and the name of its first president was Dalal Mughrabi.
Courage has no gender. Arab men must understand that the glory of life or the glory of death is not exclusively theirs, and that the woman can love in a far more noble way than them, and die much more spectacularly than them…
In a thousand years, the Arab children will read the following story:
‘On March 11, 1978, twelve men and a woman managed to establish the Republic of Palestine on a bus. Their republic existed for four hours. It doesn’t matter how long this republic existed – what is important is that it was established.’”
Text in red on picture: “Embrace until victory” |
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PA daily: Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is "most beloved among Palestinian girls"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 13, 2013
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Article by regular writer Badr Makki:
“That is how Fatah grew within us. It came into our hearts and lives within us, and the time has come for the [second] half of our people: the wife, mother, sister, and daughter. This is Dalal Mughrabi, most beloved among Palestinian girls… Dalal commanded that the secondary conflict be frozen and that the primary conflict against the Zionist enemy be escalated, and that all rifles be aimed at him… [Dalal] was a student of Abu Jihad (i.e., founder of Fatah and terrorist who planned many deadly attacks) of the Al-Asifa [Fatah military] forces.
It was the first time the Hebrew entity (i.e., Israel) imposed a curfew on the whole Tel Aviv region up to Netanya. Dalal taught an unforgettable lesson about the greatness of the Palestinian woman and the strength of [the Palestinian woman's] will. I do not forget the Battle of the Litani or the Savoy [Hotel] Operation. My love for Fatah is great because of my love for Dalal, for Abu Jihad, for both ‘Kamal’s, and for Abu Yusuf Al-Najar…
Let's learn from Dalal Mughrabi and her legacy. She instructed us to defuse the secondary conflict, for we have the same enemy and the same aim – especially after the victory of our resistance (i.e., reference to the Palestinians’ perceived victory over Israel in the Gaza conflict in 2012, Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense that targeted the terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.) and our being admitted to the UN (i.e., reference to UN’s vote in favor of Palestine as a “non-member state”). Let us all dedicate ourselves to ending the occupation."
Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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PA TV music video honors Dalal Mughrabi
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Dec. 31, 2012
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"We [PLO squad] set out on patrol from Lebanon; with no fear of death or the darkness of prison.On the coast [Dalal] Mughrabi's blood was shed, the color of [red] coral on [white] lemon flowers."
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Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children. This clip originally aired Dec. 31, 2010 and was rebroadcast Jan. 2, Aug. 24, Sept. 4, 2011 and Jan. 1, 4, Dec. 29 and 31, 2012. |
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Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi glorified on Fatah's official Facebook page
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Fatah's Facebook page, Dec. 30, 2012
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Fatah's official Facebook page chose to post the following picture of Dalal Mughrabi.
Text on picture: "All songs call to you, Dalal… the path to the homeland.”
Caption below picture: "On this day in 1959 Martyr (Shahida) Dalal Mughrabi was born, hero of the ‘Martyr Kamal Adwan’ mission, bride of Jaffa and the gentle energizing force of Fatah."
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Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
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Post on Fatah's Facebook page glorifies terror, including terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
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Fatah's Facebook page, Dec. 20, 2012
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On January 1, 2013, Fatah celebrated “Launch Day,” commemorating the 48th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack. This picture was one of many posted on Fatah's official Facebook page to commemorate Fatah’s anniversary.
The picture has a verse from the Quran glorifying death in battle:
“Fatah – the first bullet and the first rock… Hail to the launch of the Fatah rebel. [Quran:] 'Of the believers are men who are true to that which they covenanted with Allah. Some of them have paid their vow by death (in battle), and some of them still are waiting; and they have not altered in the least – Surah Al-Azhab, 23' [Quran, Sura 33:23, Pickthall translation]. The Martyrs of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the Al-Aqsa Intifada"
Next to the picture, the page administrator mentions a number of facts about Fatah that present murderous terror attacks as gloriously heroic. Here is one of them:
“Did you know? The first mission at sea in the history of the Palestinian revolution was carried out by Fatah heroes under the command of the hero Dalal Mughrabi.” [In 1978 female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi led the most deadly attack against Israel when she and other terrorists landed on the Israeli coast, hijacked a bus, and murdered 37 civilians, 12 of whom were children.]
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Fatah official praises the "heroic acts" of terrorists Laila Khaled, Dalal Mughrabi and Wafa Idris
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 12, 2012
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“Member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front Leila Khaled stressed that the road map to Palestine is resistance and armed struggle…
[She spoke] at a popular mass reception held at the Bader Association by the National Committee for Refugees at the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza, in honor of her arrival in Gaza for the first time.
Commissioner of the Central Reform Committee of Fatah, Abu Alaa Hamid extolled the heroic acts of Palestinian women, among them fighter Laila Khaled, who confronted the Zionist enemy in the air and captured its pilots; Martyr (Shahida) Dalal Mughrabi, who carried out the first tactical sea landing in the modern history of the Palestinian revolution; and Wafa Idris, the first female Martyr in the Al-Aqsa Intifada.”
Note: Laila Khaled – PFLP terrorist who participated in the hijacking of TWA flight 840 in 1969.
Dalal Mughrabi – led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Wafa Idris – the first Palestinian female suicide bomber. She killed one and injured over 100 in her attack in central Jerusalem in 2002. |
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Fatah summer camp named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 16, 2012
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"The Governor of the Jericho district Majed Al-Fatiani said that it is our national obligation to be faithful to those before us who gave and sacrificed for Palestine, and they should be a beacon for us in our activities and in guarding the achievements and capabilities of our people. This was said during a meeting at the Jericho district headquarters with the young women participating in the "Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi" summer camp from the Qalqilya district... The director of the summer camp, Lana Nazzal, stated that the summer camp is organized by the Fatah movement, with the cooperation of the Women's Association of Qalqilya and the Farmer's Association, and that the camp is meant for youth between the ages of 16-30."
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Note: Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children. |
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